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      EXIT Derby , and enter Aberdeen . Lord Derby ' s Administration has taken its formal departure in a manner highly characteristic of its two leading Ministers . In attempting to hold office by the strength of a Protectionist connexion , —in attempting to hold office on the pretext of resisting the democracy , when the democracy is asleep and in no way giving opportunity for resistance , —in endeavouring to accommodate Protectionist and Free-trade expectations , without a carte blanche , and with measures subject to revision by inferior and more prejudiced intellects , — Mr . Disraeli had to maintain an impracticable

      position ; he had to maintain it almost alone ; and partly by his own fault , partly by force of deficient generosity in his adversaries , he became the object of a dead-set on the part of many Opposition leaders , any one of whom might have been a sufficient adversary . A purist raked up Mr . Disraeli ' s past political sins—an ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer , who has cultivated only one of the many pursuits in which Mr . Disraeli

      has distinguished , himself , and that one not very eratitablv , used the accidents of technical knowledge anil party prejudice to humiliate his greater rival ; others stood round to watch for an unguarded action or a stumble , and the Minister felt himself surrounded and struck on every side . On Thursday , he made a fierce retaliatory speech ; but in the formal announcement on Monday , he had recovered his self-possession , and gracefully apologizing ^ he re-established his personal position

      m the House . Lord Derby has more and more soug ht to make his tenure of office a personal affair . It has been stated in print that he personally canvassed for support among the Liberal Members of the House of Commons ; and when at last he could hold on no longer , the formal announcement of his resignation was accompanied by a tirade against all ami sundry who were not amongst his own followers .

      The Derby Ministry is over , and its grand achievement has been to establish the fact , that Protection is impossible , even in the eyes ot its own advocates . Mr . Villiers could not have done it lialf so well . It has also established the fact that Toryism is impossible . Lord Derby , who had expressed u desire to retreat into private dignity , has consented to continue ut the head oi [ Town Edition . ]

      his party , and promises to be the leader of a spiteful Opposition . The week has been occupied by an endeavour to form a new Ministry , with a member of the Peel party at its head , but it has proved more difficult to frame a Ministry of the majority than it was to frame a Ministry of the minority when Lord Palmerston ' s unexpected assault dashed the Whigs from the seats of office , and allowed Lord Derby to come in without doing any service for

      the privilege . The reports of the " difficulties " put forth from day to day were not of the most intelligible or trustworthy kind , the whole effect being that the Peelites pertinaciously battled for an undue preponderance in the Ministry , that Lord John Russefl consented to accept an office of no political importance , and that the Radicals , or advanced Liberals , were omitted in the scheme of the new Administration . Undoubtedly there were difficulties ; the Ministiy was not ready for announcement on Thursday : and impatient

      Liberals became gloomy and foreboding . Lord Aberdeen is much respected , as a good Englishman , an old ally of the Holy Alliance transmuted to the more modern sympathy with a Gladstone , a Tory converted almost to a Liberal , and a hearty coadjutor of Peel . Yet every day added to the general want of confidence in his ability to establish a permanent Ministry . How could a

      Conservative Cabinet grant such an extension of the suffrage as would satisfy public expectation ? How refuse the claims of its Puseyite friends , specially to he urged on Mr . Gladstone ? How encounter the opposition from Lord Derby and Mr . Disraeli , backed by the largest of the minorities , and supported only by a combination of smaller minorities , mostly Liberal , and very

      precarious in their co-operation ( But the announcement in Friday ' s Times has materially mortified this view . The probability of a Cabinet comprising all the leading men in the late Opposition , so placed as to be efficient without bringing their crotchets into play , —Lord Pulmcrston in the Home Office , which means activity ; Lord John in the Foreign Office , which ought to mean English independence ; Mr . Gladstone in the Exchequer , which cannot mean theological casuistry ; and the Duke of Newcastle in the Colonies , which means justice , —raises new hopes ,

      which time must teat . Two meetings of the week exemplify the coining difficulties for any Ministry that should be undecided : the meeting ! of Lord Derby ' s

      friends , to re-organize his majority ; and the meeting of Parliamentary Reform Associations , to develop the organization of a Radical Opposition . The officers of the Association have diligently employed the off season in extending the local machinery about the country , and it is becoming really formidable . The Ministerial crisis has absorbed almost every . attention at home . Abroad , the grand event is the visit of the young Austrian Emperor to Berlin ,

      banquetting , and of course consulting , with the King of Prussia ; and thence proceeding to meet the Emperor of Russia at Warsaw . The Holy Allies are re-assembling , and their union "bodes mischief for Europe . Louis Napoleon , indeed , is said to be the chief subject of their discussion ; but that cannot be all . Europe does not yet lie quiet under her oppressions ; and there can be little doubt that the great potentates met to consider how the machinery of suppression could be

      strengthened and extended . * In France , for all his brilliant successes , Louis Napoleon is under a cloud . He has failed in important details . He cannot get his bride . He cannot get recruits among the republican party . He cannot raise the wind ; and the impending financial collapse cannot be for ever deferred . Dissidents at home seem to grow bolder , while foreign monarchs conspire against him . But he resorts to the press . An ominous pamphlet , « ' Des JA mites de [ 'Empire , " has just appeared

      under the direct patronage of the authorities , which claims for the boundaries of France the Rhine , the Scheldt , and the Alps—annexing Belgium , the Rhine provinces , and Savoy ; and the Army will probably follow up" the publication , by setting out to recruit the Imperial exchequer with remunerative war . France itself resents

      taxation ; but a ( V . w subject provinces might contribute an useful quota . Lombardy , for instance , with only one-eighth" of the population of the Austrian Empire , contributes one-fourth of the gross revenue ; and being only a subject province , the dislikes of Lombardy are not of much political importance at the capital . How convenient

      that is ! The Turkish question is becoming more complicated and more urgent . The bank at Constantinople has declined to receive state paper—a rebellion more alarming than that of Montenegro . France is once more avenged lor the rejected loan From America , President Fillmore has sent us one of the plainest and moat important messages

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      " VOL . III . No . 144 . 1 SATUBDAY , DECEMBER 25 , 1852 . [? sice Sixpence .

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      NEWS OF THE WEEK— page The Parliament of the Week 1222 The Ministry 1223 Mr . Gladstone and Lord Derby ... 1223 Disgraceful Scene in the Carlton Club 1223 Message of the American President 1224 The Cuban Slave-Trade 1225 letters from Paris 1225 Continental Notes 1226 Abd-el-Kader to Lord Londonderry 1226 AEival to the " Melbourne" 1227 The Church Tax-Gathering 1227 American Notes 1227

      Hew Telegraph Lines on the Conti- The Latest Position ot the cuoan neat ... 1228 Affair .... » - 1231 Criminal and Police Notes 1228 American Souvenirs of Napoleon Miscellaneous 1228 III r "" A" : i . " Health of London during the Week 1229 Reproductive Employment and the Births , Marriages , and Deaths 1229 Amended Order i ^ a Mr . Kirwan ' s Case *¦*** POSTSCRIPT 1229 Napoleon III . and his Military Democracy iZdii PUBLIC AFFAIRS— The ( Deceased ) Budget Dissected . Christmas 1230 -No . Ill 1232 Formation of the New Ministry : OPEN COUNCILthe Impediment 1230 Sabbath Observance in Scotland ... 1234 Mr . Disraeli and his Colleagues ... 1230 Mr . Kirwan ' s Case 1234

      LITERATURESpontaneous Generation liM ° A Batch of New Books 1237 Gorgei ' s Life and Acts in Hungary \ IA 7 Books on our Table 1238 PORTFOLIOThe Haythorne Papers 1238 Passages from a Boy ' s Epic 1 **» THE ARTSPanorama of the Bernese Alps 1240 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSMarkets , Advertisements , &c . 1240-1244

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      •• THe one Idea which Siatory exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness isi the < Idea of §^ ^ % t ^ ]^ o f Religion , tothTow down aU the barriers ereoted between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside yj ™^ spiritual Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human , race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development nature . "—Humholdt' 8 Cosmos .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 25, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1966/page/1/